Last Zone in Dawntrail... wtf!

[dtv20]

The last zone is unique and beautiful... and then we make it look like another derelict, crap heap. Seriously, wtf?

Ohh, more gray castles, oohhhh. This last zone went from a 10/10 to 3/10. Just basic gray stone crap.
I honestly feel bad for the devs that put time into it, just to have to destroy it all.

[Eskat]

Yeah it really went from "Somewhere I want to gpose in" to "somewhere I wish to avoid" really fast. I've heard you can New Game+ to fix it as an option, but that just feels so... unnecessary.

[freekyfreezer]

I had hoped that there will be a way to restore it to the old glory. I'm guessing my last hope is that we do this in a Patch MSQ, but the final cutscene did not suggest anything of the sort from what I remember. Really a huge shame, surely the Sharlayan masterminds Koana and Krile could figure something out with the sassy cat girlboss and the leader of the First turned WOL simp.

[Ayalu]

Well you can use NG+ to restore it if that helps

[Heh]

Yeah it's a bad civ

[CidHeiral]

The last zone is unique and beautiful... and then we make it look like another derelict, crap heap. Seriously, wtf?

Ohh, more gray castles, oohhhh. This last zone went from a 10/10 to 3/10. Just basic gray stone crap.
I honestly feel bad for the devs that put time into it, just to have to destroy it all.

[dtv20]

Gameplay > story. Always.

And before you say anything to try and counter that.

WE CAN TELEPORT... Yet we never do in the story?
WE CAN REVIVE PEOPLE... Yet we never do in the story? And Pheonix downs are thing in the world.

[CidHeiral]

Gameplay > story. Always.

The gameplay doesn't change. The difference is entirely aesthetic.

[SeriousPan]

WE CAN TELEPORT... Yet we never do in the story?
WE CAN REVIVE PEOPLE... Yet we never do in the story? And Pheonix downs are thing in the world.

Been a while since I did my lore homework but I think I recall some of these points...

We do actually teleport but it's apparently super rare. They do it in Endwalker. A role quest in Dawntrail pokes fun at our use of this rare magic that we use when we ask for a quest giver to "cover our teleportation costs" and they then look at you with utmost confusion then reply with "Excuse me but... what's Teleportation?"

Phoenix Down's don't bring back the dead they bring you back from the brink of death or from unconsciousness. Same thing for Raise, really. In game lore if we wipe in a dungeon it means we're all knocked out and it's assumed the enemy would then just finish us off, slit the characters throats or eat them etc... Thankfully we have the Echo so any wipe in game is us seeing a failure before it happens. lol

[Asari5]

A role quest in Dawntrail pokes fun at our use of this rare magic that we use when we ask for a quest giver to "cover our teleportation costs" and they then look at you with utmost confusion then reply with "Excuse me but... what's Teleportation?"

they told us in the beginning they dont have their aetherytes for long in tural. koana brought them over. so it makes sense for a bunch of tribes living in the countryside to not know about teleportation

which makes some of the aetherytes weird.